WELCOME TO THE HVWC CALENDAR: home of all our upcoming readings, events and workshops. You can view by list or calendar (see right menu to choose). Click the colored tabs below to show only specific options. Our workshops run as multi-session series or one-day “intensives.” Note, we list the multi-session courses on the first day they meet only. The full dates of the session are described in the course descriptions. You would need to scroll back to the start date if you needed to enroll for something already underway. But do let us know if you want to join something in midstream since we need the blessing of the instructor. Questions? Email us.

Workshops – This category encompasses all one-day and multi-week classes, whether in person or via Zoom.

Readings – Our readings are in many different genres and take place in person, on Zoom, or both!

HVWC Recurring Events – This category encompasses such regular favorites as Open Mic, Open Write, and Submission Sunday.

Special Events – These other creative experiences are sure to interest our creative community!

Hudson Valley Writers Center

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Philipse Manor Station
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 United States Get Directions
914.332.5953
www.writerscenter.org

Located at the Philipse Manor Station (still an operating local stop on Metro-North Hudson East line, but we inhabit the historic building!) the Hudson Valley Writers Center offers unique classes and a versatile performance space.

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Writing the “After” Poem: Taking Inspiration from Your Poet-Forerunners with David Groff (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Our poems exist in the context of poems already written. In this workshop, we’ll join the tradition of poets responding to the work of poets who came before us. We’ll write and discuss our own “after” poems—poems that recast, revise, renew, reimagine, and maybe even reject modern and contemporary works that are part of our […]

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Cat Sassy, Kitty Meow & Nine Lives—Cat Waxing Moon Poetics in a Time of Disenchantment: a Generative Workshop with Karen Finley (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

This workshop is going to embrace the Cat as character, symbol, friend, metaphor, archetype and familiar. The Cat Lady, the Cat Daddy, the pet, the childhood friend. The cat holds our secrets, grief, joy and sorrow. The cat and the hat. Whiskers. Magic cat. Crazy cat. Finley will create a series of prompts and writing […]

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 Fail Like a Genius: Writing Better Prose Through Minor and Major Setbacks with Kristopher Jansma (in person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

This two-hour Master Class will examine the lessons we can learn from the many failures of our greatest fiction writers. Students can generate fresh work through a series of hands-on exercises inspired by our discussions of the lost, unfinished, and just plain bad works of the authors we love most. NB: This is a two […]

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An Afternoon with Harper One Prose Writers Kris Jansma & Tracy O’Neill (In Person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction has been published in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Story, and ZYZZYVA. His nonfiction has been […]

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An Evening of New Poetry with Catherine Barnett, Malachi Black, & Jana Prikryl (In Person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Join Jennifer Franklin, Program Director, and Sophia Bannister, as we welcome Catherine Barnett & Malachi Black as they read from their new collections. Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space, Human Hours, winner of the Believer Book Award, and The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin […]

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Open Write (in person & via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Please join us for our warm and welcoming Open Write Nights, recurring monthly on the Second Saturday of each month. This group will take place in HYBRID FORM, meaning that there will participants in person at HVWC as well as joining on the big screen via Zoom. Your hosts Cassie Cartaginese and Cassie Valencia will facilitate an […]

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HVWC Reads: Our Narrow Hiding Places, a new book club hosted by Jonathan Vatner (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Join HVWC Year of Your Book Faculty Member, Jonathan Vatner, for the second event of HVWC Reads where our community reads four books of prose a year and meets to discuss them prior to an in person reading at HVWC. This installment, on Sunday December 15th will feature the novel, Our Narrow Hiding Places (HarperCollins, […]

Free – $50.00

Jewish Writers Poetry Workshop with Sean Singer (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

This is a two-day workshop (December 24- December 25, 10AM-6 PM ET via Zoom) for writers who wish to engage with themes of Jewishness— identity, cultural history, Jewish as a religious or racial category, family, exile, diaspora, or ethics—in a time of rising antisemitism. We will read a range of poets writing about these issues […]

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Platform Magic with Noah Levine (in person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

An evening of interactive magic at the Hudson Valley Writers Center. Presented by Noah Levine. Noah Levine (Magic After Hours, Speakeasy Magick, The Magic Castle) presents a night of conjuring at HVWC (the old Philipse Manor Station). In this intimate, atmospheric space, stories of coincidence will be interwoven with expert sleight-of-hand and psychological misdirection as […]

Submission Sunday (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Submission Sundays is a free service to members of HVWC. Space is limited so please reserve your spot. This group will meet online via Zoom. The host will email the Zoom link in the day leading up to the event. Please email [email protected] with any questions. One Sunday a month, 12:30-2:30 pm. Join host M.A. Scott for two […]

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